Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-01-22

with coal, shales, alum, copperas and sui
phuric acid. So it is with the contents of
tae ragpickers' bag. Woolen rags. old stock
ings, white flannel, carpeting, serge, tailors
trimmings, old coats, gowns and other con-
demned garments are sent to the shoddy
manufacturer where they are torn into
shreds, mixed with new wool and manufac-
tured into cheap and serviceable cloth.
Woolen rags are also ground up into flock
and artificial flowers and can always be used,
no matter how old.
Linen cloths are sent to the paper manu-
facturer and transformed into the best paper.
The enormous shop of Marcus Ward & Co.
at Belfast, Ireland, depends largely upon the
linen manu- factories of that place for its
paper stock. Cotton rags go to paper max
ers, while house rags and dish cloths, which
growers for manure. All kinds of paper are
sent to the papier mache manufacturer, who
produces various ornamental and useful arti-
cles, such as tea trays, cigar and tobacco
cases and match boxes. Bones are boiled for
their grease and gelatine, converted into
charcoal and used in sugar refneries, sold to
the tanner, who manufactures case handles,
they ground up and sold to the farmer
as phosphates of lime, forming excellent
aud highly valuable manure.
Old bottles, walls and fragments of glass
are remelted, colored by unique process and
made into fat pieces which are broken up
into irregular shapes to serve as mosaic win
dow glass. Pieces of tin and tin cans are
sold to chemical works or to manufacturers
who melt them into window weights. Old
boots are sold to men who patch them up
for the cheap trade, or if they are too dilapi-
dated they are ground up with other frag
ments of leather and compressed into insoles
for cheap shoes. The tin and solder are re-
moved from old saucepans and sold to the
dealer in these articles. In Paris the utility
of every thing is demonstrated Coal and
ashes are sold to brick burners, the dye is
extracted from scarlet cloths for wood stain
ing purposes, and the bodies of dead cats and
dogs are skinned and the hides used in the
manufacture of gloves, and one enterprising
chap buys bits of bread, grinds them up and
resells them to French cooks as bread
crumbs
Sensitive Rostonian Narrases His
Peculiar Woes.
From the Boston Post1
l heard of a pathetic outgrowth of nervous
sensibility yesterday. A professional man
who is not only painfully elfconscious
man, but also one given to observing things
about him with great minuteness, has become
SO acutely susceptible to the essential ugli-
ness of the human ear that he scarcely sees
anything else in the people about him than
their ears. To physician, expert in ner-
vous affections, whom he was wise enough to
consult, this gentlemen told his story some
what after this fashion: cit was as many as
five or SIX years ago that the sight of par
ticularIy hideous pair of ears, one of which
had been slit in CHASTITY manner in some
accident or fight, set ms to rejecting on the
extraordinary caprice of Providence in set
ting, in the most conspicuous place upon the
head Of its curious earthly achievement,
such utterly absurd and unsightly contrivan-
ces as human ears. The ear is useful, no
doubt: but might not an infinite ingenuity
and an omnipotent choice have provided man
with an auditory appliance less hldeous than
this convoluted excrescence? [ was led to
ask myself, Is there any such thing
beautiful human ear? [ looked up all the
passages in polite literature i'll which the
human ear is referred to, and found not only
that such passages are extremely
few, but that the beauty referred to-al
the comparisons of delicate, pink-edged
feminine to the translucent exteriors of
shells and the like are simply comparative.
No poet ever thought, so far l
could find, the beauty of finding
absolute beauty in the ear. 1t is
only pendant or an accompaniment, less
hideous than usual, to the beautiful head and
face of a lovely woman, that the actual ear
itself, as apart from the faculty of hearing,
ever becomes tolerable in poetry. In art the
ear is thing to be dissembled: no realist
was ever unblushiug as faithfully to paint
the as it is. Photography reveals it in
all its ugliness. but poetry bears the same re-
lation to art that the dissection of the body
4lao1 1>,-o o,1GI
of these through my mind led me to start
sort of Holy Grail quest for a really beauti-
full human ear, and, at the same time, l
found myself searching out, whenever [ got
upon street car or a railway train, and as
walked down the crowded streets, all the
ugliest ears, with the instructive eagerness of
a connoisseur. The ear habit grew upon me-
became sort of collector of ears. When
l came into railway train filled with people
my eyes ran down the long rows of ears next
the aisle to see whether there vacancy
in the devious lines that l might fill with
my own. That row of ears to a man who
had fallen into the habit of observing moth
ing else but the ears horribly suggestive
of sea serpent. l say that all this began
five or six years ago, but of course my ma
nia-for such it has become-did not all at
once take this serious form. It has been a
gradual growth. Now I find it threatening,
perhaps not my mental balance, for I feel
mind certainly, and all my old sensibiiity
to the beauty of the human form and
the loveliness of life about me. Ny old keen
sense of the beautiful [ lament, as a fallen
angel might lament the joys of paradise. For
me there is nothing in the world but ears,
ears, ears. The pleasure that [ sometimes
feel i'll meeting a specimen less hideous than
the rest does not repay me for the cffense
whic the uniform dead level of i'll shaped
growths infiicts upon me, and I am resolved,
if medical science can do anything for so
strange maady TO take the utmost posi-
BILE advantage OF it. If I could so influence
my organs of sight as to make it impossible
for me ever again to see the human ear at
all, it would be a consummation devoutly to
be wished" I understand that the eminent
physician consulted in this case was
nonplussed for time but has at last succeed
ed in influencing the sufferers thoughts
and attentions by diverting them to o.her
channels that he is already somewhat less
pognantly conscious of the ears he Sees
That the doctor is in fact fighting the old
mania with new one and intends to CHECK
the new before it in its turn shall take pos
session of the patient as did the other.
The case, l have no doubt, will suggest to
more than on reader something of similar
sort in his knowledge experience. It is
only one of many morbid outgrowtks of the
keen consciousness, the rawness of sensibili-
ty that overwork and intense mental strain
have sups srinduced.